英文摘要 |
The spread of the Chinese people to the south has been one of the most impressive movements in the history of human migration. From its first beginnings in the loess-land of the northwest and the great plain of the Yellow River, Chinese civilisation, over the centuries, extended into the valley of the Yangtse and onwards to the shores of the Pacific. In modern times, the frontiers of the Chinese world are to be found in south-east Asia and on the eastern coast of Taiwan, but it is the purpose of this paper to study an earlier period of this great migration, and to examine the process by which the government and culture of the Chinese people were established in the lands of the Yangtse. |